Are there any pics avaiable to see whether or not our sun is part of a constellation?

Question

I've always wondered if our Sun was part of a "Zodiac" or any type of groups of stars. Is there any evidence of this?

Answer 1

Good question but I doubt it because our constellations were created by ancient people that wouldn't have been able to see the stars in the day time to place it in a constellation.

But they were very smart about the movement of the stars during ancient times so it is possible they could predict were the sun was and place it in a constellation.

Answer 2

First, the stars in constellations are rarely related to each other in any way: they just happen to appear to be in roughly the same part of the sky observed from Earth. Because we don't have depth perception for objects so far away they all appear to be the same distance from us, while two stars "close to" each other in the sky may actually be very distant from eachother: one may be 20 light years from us while the other is thousands of light years away.

Because stars are so far away, their relative positions don't appear to change much on human lifetimes: they appear to rotate around the Earth as if attached to a solid sphere, called the "Celestial Sphere" by astronomers. (The apparent rotation is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.)

The Sun is not gravitationally bound to any group or cluster of stars. Furthermore, the Sun _does_ change its apparent position
relative to the other stars: it appears in the 12 signs of the Zodiac at different times of the year. This wandering is caused by Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Any decent introductory college astronomy textbook will have diagrams of these concepts.

Answer 3

the sun is part of a bunch of constellations, just none that we can see. if we were in another solar system then there would be all different constellations and our sun could be a part of them. i think the constellations are even different looking from a different planet in our solar system.
for all we know sol might be the north star for some alien civilization.

Answer 4

There are stars that are closer to us than other stars. From a far away star, ours might appear to be part of a constellation with any stars in the same direction from that far away star. However, from Earth we're too close to have the Sun stay in one part of the sky.

Answer 5

The only way to tell for sure, was to view our sun from a vantage point many light years away. It is conceivable the sun could be part of a connect-the dots symbol, but our Sun is many magnitudes less bright than most of the visible stars we see in the sky.

Answer 6

Thats a cool idea. Unfortunately, constalations were chose by the ancients, unwittingly naming the stars not knowing the sun was a star. And anyhow, if we could get a picture like that, it would involve a really good camera, and a big mirror a couple billion lightyears off

Answer 7

the zodiac signs are picked by us, it is not a name for a star cluster, the sun may well be in a star cluster but out star(the sun) is not part of a zodiac sign, how would they have been able to see that and the stars at the at the same time lol?

Answer 8

right this moment the solar is contained in the constellation of Virgo. The indicators of the zodiac are depending on the constellations the solar seems to go by in the course of the year. it really is led to larger by technique of the Earth's orbit around the solar, and the position the solar seems. So after twenty first September the solar will be in Libra.

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major_Moving_Group

the sun probably formed in a star cluster about 4.6 billion years ago, but there is no clue about where any of the other stars of that cluster have gone. the sun is passing near a loose group of stars that include merak (β ursa majoris), phecda (γ ursa majoris), megrez (δ ursa majoris), alioth (ε ursa majoris), mizar (ζ ursa majoris), 78 ursa majoris, and 80 ursa majoris.

Answer 10

no.
sun is no part of any constellation.